Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own behalf while still in uniform. Though they have never really joined organized labor-four separate unions have flopped, and they have never managed a successful strike-each team has its player representative. If trivial requests have failed (one Philadelphia muscleman thought dugout benches needed foam-rubber cushions), earnest efforts to improve conditions have built the pension system and boosted minimum salaries...
...moods and situations in which Shakespeare places him, emerges as not just an "ideal" monarch but also as a believable man. Douglas Watson, who plays the title role in the Festival production, gives a performance that is far from flawless. However, he does succeed in making Henry an earnest, changing person, and the play succeeds with...
...enthusiastic applause he got from ordinary citizens, a trifle embarrassed to find him the only Foreign Minister present-when they invited him, he was still only Pravda's editor. But Nasser himself found time in the week's hectic schedule to spend long hours with him in earnest talk. As the talks went on, Western embassies began to get carefully planted "leaks" on the generous terms of Shepilov's offers...
...greatest importance that he make no mistake . . . The impression was conveyed to the world that the cold war was over . . . The President gave every evidence of personal trust in the Kremlin leaders and even went so far as to credit the Russians with a desire for peace no less earnest than that of the West . . . Tensions relaxed immediately all over the world, and along with them, efforts to build strength and unity against the Communist threat . . . Neutralists and proCommunists were confirmed and strengthened in their positions. The free world was psychologically disarmed. It is clear now that the 'spirit...
...third fellow from the end in the class picture. The few real fans in town felt like Huck Finn trying to warm up to the Widow Douglas: "It was rough . . . considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways." Robin Roberts was an earnest young man interested only in giving the enemy its lumps, while the fans, as one of them explains it today, were looking for a player "who can give us lumps in the throat...